Still trying out the new lens

I thought I'd try out zooming in on Kazu's round face today.

I was waiting for birds to appear in the trees outside my apartment and had given up, when this Mynah hopped onto my balcony. Unfortunately, I was sitting inside and not ready for him, so this is the best I managed. So dark and grainy..........

More zoom!

I just bought a second hand lens, it's a Canon EF-S 55-250mm IS. The sun was going down when I tried out the lens, so the images are noisy. Still, I was impressed with what this lens can do!

I took a photo of this cat from the 4th floor. Slightly blurry, but this shot was handheld.

 

This was not only handheld, but also at full zoom and at a ridiculously low shutter speed of 1/15.

Zoom!

I tried out the "zoom effect" for the first time today. This is a photo of my lotus plant; I oversharpened the photo on purpose to get a more artistic effect.

I set up an automatic carbon dioxide injection system for my planted tank today. No more DIY carbon dioxide for me, that weekly mixing of the yeast/sugar water mixture was getting tiresome.

Cat in the dark

I tried getting a nice silhouette of Miki while she was staring at a dragonfly, but it didn't really turn out right.

Rainy

Rain rain go away, I didn't get to go out today. These photos were taken from my balcon-ay.

Birth of a guppy fry

Today's "photo" is a video. One of my guppies gave birth today, and I managed to film her giving birth to a wee wriggly one.

A photo a day

I'm going to try to turn this into a "photo a day" blog. I'm trying this out because I want to improve my (perhaps non-existent) photography skills. The reason why I didn't just go ahead and change the title to "A photo a day" is because I have no idea if I'm ever going to keep to -- a photo a day. I'll probably just put one photo up for all eternity. I won't have to feel guilty because this is supposedly a "random photos and videos" blog!

I have a feeling that this will disintegrate into a blog of photos from random parts of my apartment. Oh lazy, procrastinator, me.

Ok, here's today's photo. It's a ridiculously small photo of the moon.

 I swear, I couldn't do much better than this. It was taken with a 50mm lens -- I need more zoom!

To make up for the puniness of this photo, I'll include a photo taken a few days back.

That's my 3 month old guppy fry in mid swim. He's about an inch long.

Hey, that's 2 photos already! Ok, I cheated.